Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Midnapore, West Bengal, India

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar

I spread out a sheet on the floor and threw pamphlets at the audience. On a small tv-monitor played an excerpt of a documentary on Holger Meins. I placed objects and books onto the canvas and the canvas turned into a prison cell. Then I took out several ingredients for baking: butter, sugar, eggs, flour, and also some earth from my Hole. I mixed everything into dough and baked 2 classic sand-cookies. I undressed to my underwear and force-fed myself violently to eat the cookies.
(10 April 2008)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1987

There are 3377 births, 3944 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2079 other events about 5733 people in 6441 places until today.

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar is an ongoing project since 1985 by DDV.

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Midnapore, West Bengal, India.

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Saturday 9th of October 1920 (x) — Feral girls Amala and Kamala are rescued from a wolves' den by the rector of the local orphanage Joseph Amrito Lal Singh.
French surgeon Serge Aroles concluded in his book 'L'Enigme des enfants-loup' that the rector's story was a hoax.
Wednesday 21st of September 1921 (-) — Feral girl Amala dies of a kidney infection.
Thursday 14th of November 1929 (-) — Feral girl Kamala dies of a kidney infection.